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Yesterday corresponding to the 10th August 2011, some
1700 national graduates flocked into the Nazhoen Pelri auditorium, Thimphu. The
briefing session that was scheduled to start at 9 AM couldn’t do so until much
later as some of the graduates didn’t report on time and those who were on
time didn’t take the seat properly. The committee members’ nightmare in maintaining
the crowd was just too obvious.
With much hurdle, the graduates were accommodated into the
packed hall and the session finally kicked off. The newly appointed secretary
to the Ministry of Labor and Human Resources Dasho Pema Wangda gave an opening
statement in Dzongkha, followed in English. “That’s the formality,” said he
switching his speech to English. While we talk about diminishing usage of the
national Dzongkha, and see the helpless state of Dzongkha Development
Commission, I couldn’t help wondering how we couldn’t even conduct the
‘National’ session in our ‘national language’!
He clearly detailed down the main o…